On January 1, 2014, an anonymous user announced the release of SnapchatDB and 4.6 million usernames and matched phone numbers in a Hacker News post. The Snapchat accounts - even those marked 'private' ...

Security researchers at UpGuard discovered the mysterious database, which also contained billions of email addresses and ...

Database misconfigurations resulted in a huge data leak which hackers already picked up on.

Database security and protection is receiving more attention and budget from organizations with the steady increase in data breaches and the resultant regulations designed to keep them at bay. However ...